January 16, 2014 15:17 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. Today’s Top BDS Stories: 1. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop comes out hard against the BDS Movement, calling it anti-Semitic and hypocritical in an exclusive interview with The Times of Israel. She strongly condemned […]
January 15, 2014 16:23 by Alex Margolin Everything you need to know about fighting BDS and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. Today’s Top BDS Stories: 1. Rock legend Neil Young and hitmaker Justin Timberlake announced plans to perform in Israel in setbacks for the BDS movement. At the same time, a petition to boycott the […]
Newscom Food stamp rolls have been growing rapidly. But what many may not realize is that participation among able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) has been skyrocketing compared to the total number of participants. That’s just one reason Congress should reform the food stamp program in the farm bill now under consideration. In just four years, […]
(CNSNews.com) – “You have given up your freedom of choice,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned Americans on Tuesday, as the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal released their latest Index of Economic Freedom. The Index shows that the United States no longer ranks among the top-ten freest economies in the world. When President Obama […]
Increases funding for Head Start and Early Head Start by $612 million, to $8.6 billion. Head Start has been evaluated by the Department of Health and Human Services and deemed ineffective at improving child outcomes on numerous measures. In December 2012, the HHS released a highly anticipated evaluation of the program. The scientifically rigorous evaluation […]
House Analysis: This week, the House may consider the Exchange Information Disclosure Act, which is a bill that would amend Obamacare to require transparency in the operation of American Health Benefit Exchanges. This attempt to improve the transparency and security of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, speaks to Congress’s recognition of the […]
Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” programs that some Democrats are supportive of and will vote for a $9 billion cut in the federal food stamp program known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). “If that is the figure, and if other matters that are still at issue can be resolved, I think […]
China became the world’s largest trading nation in 2013, overtaking the US in what Beijing described as “a landmark milestone” for the country. China’s annual trade in goods passed the $4tn (£2.4tn) mark for the first time last year according to official data, after exports from the world’s second largest economy rose 7.9% to $2.21tn and […]
Newscom Much will be said about 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, about how it has been lost. In fact, the debate on poverty (like the poor themselves) will be with us all year. But it’s important to remember that LBJ’s war coincided with other social upheavals, such as the end of the marriage […]
Bernie Madoff has said all along that JP Morgan knew about – and knowingly profited from – his Ponzi schemes. So JP Morgan has agreed to pay the government $2 billion to avoid investigation and prosecution. While this may sound like a lot of money, it is spare sofa change for a big bank like JP Morgan. It’s not […]
